Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Samuel 11:4
Took her — From her own house into his palace, not by force, but by persuasion. Lay with her — See how all the way to sin is down hill! When men begin, they cannot soon stop themselves.
Took her — From her own house into his palace, not by force, but by persuasion. Lay with her — See how all the way to sin is down hill! When men begin, they cannot soon stop themselves.
Verse 2 Samuel 11:4. _AND SHE CAME IN UNTO HIM_] We hear nothing of her reluctance, and there is no evidence that she was taken by force....
III. DAVID'S SIN, CHASTISEMENT AND RESTORATION 1. David's Great Sin CHAPTER 11 _ 1. David's great sin (2 Samuel 11:1)_ 2. David sends for Uriah (2 Samuel 11:6) 3. The murder of Uriah (2
SAM 11. DAVID, BATH-SHEBA, AND URIAH (J). 2 SAMUEL 11:1. In the spring, at the beginning of the season suitable for military operations, Joab and the army set out to besiege Rabbah (Jeremiah 49:2 *);...
FOR. and when. PURIFIED. Compare Leviticus 15:18. It is possible to be more punctilious about the ceremonial Law than the moral Law....
_David sent messengers_ Bath-sheba cannot be acquitted from blame, for it does not appear that she offered any resistance. Vanity and ambition prevailed over the voice of conscience. "Cupido dominandi...
David's adultery with Bath-sheba It is one object of Holy Scripture to paint sin in its true colours. No friendly flattery, no false modesty, draws a veil over this dark scene in David's life. It is...
AND SHE RETURNED UNTO HER HOUSE— What the state of David's mind was, when the tumult of passion had subsided, Bath-sheba was departed, and reason had returned, I shall not take upon me to paint. Calm...
2. David's Sin With Bathsheba, 2 Samuel 11:1-27. _David's Sin With Bathsheba._ 2 Samuel 11:1-5 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth _to battle,_ that David...
_AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS, AND TOOK HER; AND SHE CAME IN UNTO HIM, AND HE LAY WITH HER; FOR SHE WAS PURIFIED FROM HER UNCLEANNESS: AND SHE RETURNED UNTO HER HOUSE._ David sent messengers, and took h...
11:4 purified (b-22) Or 'and she purified.'...
DAVID AND BATHSHEBA This narrative is of the greatest value. It shows the faithfulness and the high morality of the historian, who relates, without a single attempt at palliation, this scandalous chap...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 11 DAVID AND BATHSHEBA V1 The next spring came. Kings usually went to fight wars during springtime. David sent Joab out with David...
SENT MESSENGERS, AND TOOK HER. — This does not imply the use of violence. Bath-sheba, however beautiful, appears from the narrative of 1 Kings 2:13, to have been a woman of little discretion, and now...
וַ יִּשְׁלַח֩ דָּוִ֨ד מַלְאָכִ֜ים וַ יִּקָּחֶ֗הָ...
CHAPTER XIV. _ DAVID AND URIAH._ 2 Samuel 11:1. HOW ardently would most, if not all readers, of the life of David have wished that it had ended before this chapter! Its golden era has passed away, a...
GIVING REIN TO SELF-INDULGENCE 2 Samuel 11:1 This was not an isolated sin. For some time, backsliding had been eating out David's heart. The cankerworm takes its toll before the noble tree crashes to...
In the whole of the Old Testament literature there is no chapter more tragic or full of solemn and searching warning than this. Carefully pondering it, we notice the downward steps logically following...
_Purified. Literally, "sanctified." Hebrew and Septuagint, "for she was, " &c. (Haydock) --- Hoc ideo additum ne miraremur illico eam concepisse. (Grotius; Aristotle, Anim. vii. 20. --- Women were obl...
(2) And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very bea...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11, 12, AND 13. The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings go...
AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS,.... To invite her to his palace: AND TOOK HER; not by force, but through persuasion: AND SHE CAME IN UNTO HIM; into the apartment where he was: AND HE LAY WITH HER; she c...
And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. Ver. 4. _And David sent messengers,...
_David sent messengers and took her_ From her own house into his palace, not by force, but by persuasion. _And he lay with her_ See how all the way to sin is down hill! When men begin they cannot soon...
1 While Ioab besieged Rabbah, Dauid committeth adulterie with Bath-sheba. 6 Vriah sent for by Dauid to couer the adulterie, would not goe home neither sober nor drunken. 14 Hee carieth to Ioab the l...
And David sent messengers and took her, Bathsheba evidently coming and submitting to his demands without opposition. AND SHE CAME IN UNTO HIM, AND HE LAY WITH HER; FOR SHE WAS PURIFIED FROM HER UNCLEA...
David's Adultery...
The account with Ammon had by no means been settled, and in the Spring David sent Joab and the armies of Israel to battle the Ammonites and to besiege their capital city, of Rabbah. We are told specif...
(FOR SHE WAS PURIFIED FROM HER UNCLEANNESS) AND SHE RETURNED: Or, when she had purified herself, etc. she returned...
1-5 Observe the occasions of David's sin; what led to it. 1. Neglect of his business. He tarried at Jerusalem. When we are out of the way of our duty, we are in temptation. 2. Love of ease: idleness...
DAVID SENT AND TOOK HER from her own house into his palace, not by force, but by persuasion, as desiring to speak with her. SHE CAME IN UNTO HIM; into his palace and chamber, as he desired. For she wa...
2 Samuel 11:4 David H1732 sent H7971 (H8799) messengers H4397 took H3947 (H8799) came H935 (H8799) lay...
CONTENTS: David's great sin. CHARACTERS: David, Uriah, Bathsheba, Joab. CONCLUSION: A Christian with natural tendencies to sensuality may have cravings even when the general bent of his mind is to li...
2 Samuel 11:1. _When kings go forth to war._ After the latter rain, early in May, when the campaign could open, and when the main of their harvest was saved. _Rabbah_ was the capital of the Ammonites,...
_And it came to pass in an eventide._ THE FALL AND PUNISHMENT OF DAVID ILLUSTRATED I. The circumstances of David previous to His fall. For several years he had been in a state of great trouble: But i...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 11:1 The story of the Ammonite war continues up through 2 Samuel 11:1 and concludes in...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 11:4 SENT MESSENGERS AND TOOK HER. Considering David’s elaborate attempt to cover up his act of adultery (vv. 2 Samuel 11:6), it is hardly likel
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES 2 Samuel 11:1. “AFTER THE YEAR,” etc., rather, _at the return of the year, i.e._, in the spring when kings were accustomed to begin military operations. “HIS SERVANTS,”...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 11:1 AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED; Hebrew and Revised Version, _at the return of the year; _that is, as Josephus paraphrases it, "the next spring." It seems quite certain that the w...
Now in chapter eleven. It came to pass, after these things that Joab, and the army in the springtime when it was a good time to go out and fight, after the winter rains were over, Joab with the forces...
Genesis 39:7; James 1:14; James 1:15; Job 31:9; Leviticus 12:2;...